Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (2010)
Genres:Adventure, Indie, Point-and-click
Themes:Action, Comedy, Science fiction, Mystery
Game modes:Single player
Story:Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic 5 game comedy saga.
In The Devil’s Playhouse series, a mysterious power calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it - intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.
This first episode starts with a bang as gorilla invader Skunk'ape sets his sights on Max’s mysterious abilities. While mastering his future sight, teleportation, shape shifting and mind reading powers - and investigating their source - Sam & Max must fend off villainous Skunk’ape and get him banished to The Penal Zone.
The saga plays out in a surreal symphony of mayhem that gets deeper and more twisted with each episode.
* Episode 1: The Penal Zone
* Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
* Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain!
* Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
* Episode 5: The City That Dares Not SleepShow more
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I specifically want the remaster of this game on the store. As a longtime Telltale point and click adventure game fan I absolutely loved the remasters. I would gladly buy the remaster of the devil's playhouse DRM free
The Devil's Playhouse was Telltale's finest hour, no doubt about it. For the first time, episodic gaming made sense to me. The community interaction on the official forum was out of this world incredible. Every new episode focused on new environments instead of re-using old ones, and every episode parodied a new narrative genre. I was over the moon when the launch trailer for the Remaster (June 2024) featured the GOG logo right from the very beginning. But alas, as of January 2025, no sign of it releasing here.
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